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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Blueflood vs. CrateDB vs. Kdb vs. TinkerGraph

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraDistributed Database based on LuceneHigh performance Time Series DBMSA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#227  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comblueflood.iocratedb.comkx.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikicratedb.com/­docscode.kx.com
DeveloperRackspaceCrateKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc
Initial release2016201320132000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032009
Current release3.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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CrateDB Cloud: a distributed SQL database that spreads data and processing across an elastic cluster of shared nothing nodes. CrateDB Cloud enables data insights at scale on Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaqJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'no
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitySQL-like query language (q)no
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions (Javascript)user defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyes infowith viewsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategynono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnorights management via user accountsrights management via user accountsno
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BigchainDBBluefloodCrateDBKdbTinkerGraph
Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersAcross all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricsThe CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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